BIOMARKERS ASSOCIATED WITH COVID-19 PATIENTS
Blood samples from patients suspected of COVID-19 were found to have low albumin, elevated lactate dehydrogenase, elevated reactive proteins, and lymphopenia. Increased erythrocyte sedimentation rate, elevated alanine aminotransferase, aspartate aminotransferase and creatinine kinase levels have also been assessed, there is also leucocytosis, increased creatinine and bilirubin levels and leukopenia (Cheng et al., 2020). Protein profiles and serum clinico-pathological features had also helped in the diagnosis and epidemiological surveys of SARS-CoV (Ren et al., 2004).